President and Founder of IRA Mauritania (Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste), Mr Biram Dah Abeid, visited Washington, DC between 2 and 9 March 2017. They held a round of advocacy meetings to raise awareness of the wide presence of slavery in Mauritania. Through targeted meetings, the delegation was successful in raising US policy-makers’ and experts at various high-level...
President and Founder of IRA Mauritania (Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste), Mr Biram Dah Abeid, visited Washington, DC between 2 and 9 March 2017. They held a round of advocacy...
Photo courtesy of Reuters Senior official Wang Yifu, head of a Chinese-appointed parliamentary delegation for Taiwan-related issues, participated in a group discussion during China’s National...
Photo Courtesy of Turkistan Times Over the past decades, Muslim minorities have been forced into Sinicization by the Chinese government. According to Chinese officials, this ideological and political...
Photo by Ogaden People's Rights Civilians in the Ogaden region, the Somali region of Ethiopia, have been struggling with severe droughts and the consequent spread of hunger and Cholera, resulting...
The Pakistan’s minister for inter-provincial coordination, Mr Riaz Hussain Pirzada, declared today [15th March 2017] that there are plans to convert Gilgit-Baltistan – so far...
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Photo Courtesy: Science for Human Rights/Flickr Nigerian author, environmental and human rights activist and former member of the UNPO Presidency Ken Saro-Wiwa was sentenced to death...
Photo by African Business Communities Having faced several extreme weather events in the past few decades, Somaliland is still vulnerable to intense climatic conditions. Recurrent droughts...
Photo courtesy of The Guardian Economic development may be linked to increasing ethnic tensions in Ethiopia. The proposal of a strategic development plan for the city of Addis Ababa in 2014 prompted...
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